Lord of the Flies is a fictional novel about a group of boys stranded on a tropical island in the Pacific. The story is set during World War II. The 'fall' in Lord of the Flies can be predicted by analyzing the symbolic meanings in the story. The symbolic meanings of the island help pred...

Whether a reader connects to the symbolism of Heart Of Darkness or is merely reading it for fun, one cannot go away from this story without a lingering feeling of uneasiness. Joseph Conrad writes what seems to be a simple story about a man in search of an ivory hunter; one must look deeper into the ...

This novel, Lord of the Flies, was written by William Golding. The novel is filled with many symbols, which support the theme to the novel. Throughout this novel you will see Golding use Objects, Characters and settings as symbols. The novel starts with a tropical island, which a group of English...

The Facade of TattoosIn "Parker's Back" by Flannery O'Connor, the tattoos O.E. Parker receives are crucial to the reader's understanding of him. Furthermore, O'Connor suggests them as major symbols throughout Parker's life. Parker, the main character in this story, goes through the actions of life...

Heart Of DarknessA much revered and criticized book is Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It deals with many issues, the two most forthright being the themes of Racism, and the difference between light versus dark. Through two contrary sources, and insights on various cases of symbolism, the book ...

A Critical Analysis of the Opening Pages of Chaper Nine from "The Go-Between" by LP Hartley The beginning passages of chapter nine are illustrative of the plot intensifying and depict a heightened relationship between Leo and Ted Burgess. They are symbolically indicative of &quo...

Light and Dark in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad uses the words light and dark to show many different points throughout the novel Heart of Darkness and the novella The Secret Sharer. He uses the words in showing the differences in good and evil. He also ...

Sinclair Ross' As For Me and My House is a story of the struggle of a minister and his wife during the depression in the prairies. It is told through the eyes of his wife, Mrs. Bentley, and the entries in her journal. At the time of publication, it received little praise, and was disregarded fo...

No matter who you ask, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau or any other great philosopher they will always tell you that Plato was and always will be the greatest philosopher. Plato is known for great thoughts and feeling about the government and the way their social and political issues are handled. He used a ...

The Homecoming is a play with an emphasis on being realistic, thus creating a wholly unrealistic outlook on life. The Homecoming\'s sparse realism evolves from there is no guarantee that a visitor will possess a visitor\'s card detailing all his personal information. The desire for verification is o...

Heart Of Darkness Whether a reader connects to the symbolism of Heart Of Darkness or is merely reading it for fun, one cannot go away from this story without a lingering feeling of uneasiness. Joseph Conrad writes what seems to be a simple story about a man in search of an ivory hunter; one must loo...

Whether a reader connects to the symbolism of Heart Of Darkness or is merely reading it for fun, one cannot go away from this story without a lingering feeling of uneasiness. Joseph Conrad writes what seems to be a simple story about a man in search of an ivory hunter; one must look deeper into the...

A Piece of the "Pie" Ask anyone what was the defining moment in the rock history of the 1960s was and all you will get is a one word answer: Woodstock. The three day rock festival that defined an era was only one of many music festivals of the '60s. But Woodstock has come to symbolize, "an e...

From the quirky yet comical mind of Wes Anderson, comes a film about a dysfunctional family that tries to make amends with the downfall and corruption that erased the dreams of a nuclear family. Anderson's two previous cult classics Bottle Rocket and Rushmore failed to ignite at the box office ...

William Shakespeare's grand tragedy Hamlet is a tale of revenge that coupled with uncertainty and the complexity of action ultimately ends in disaster for all characters involved. In Act IV, Scene IV Hamlet is in argument with himself. He punishes himself for not acting soon enough after encoun...

Lord of The Flies is one of the best-known books of the post-war years. A group of young boys, the oldest of whom is twelve, and the youngest six, are marooned on a desert island, and almost immediately a battle for supremacy takes place among the principal characters. Violence and death follow. ...

Davies enters the play as an old tramp, someone that Aston, out of goodwill, has brought home, from a brawl in a café that he has saved the former from. Right here, we already start to see Davies's ugly side, as he constantly mumbles about "All them Greeks and Poles, Blacks", w...

The novella Heart of Darkness was written in 1899 by Joseph Conrad explores the idea of self-discovery and can be described as a story of initiation. Marlow, the protagonist of the novella, undertakes a boat ride up the Congo River in search of Kurtz, the chief of the Inner Station, however this jo...

Dear Mother, As you know, I've spending some quality time with the Loman family in order to get a representation of the family's well-being and the interpersonal relationships each family member has with the other. I have made observations on the characteristics and behavior of ...

What is the significance of dreams in "Of Mice And Men" The book "Of Mice and Men" was written by a man called Steinbeck. This novel deals with the plight of migrant labourers in California during the great depression, set around the 1930's after the great Wall Street cra...

Lord of the Flies: An Analysis "The two boys faced each other. There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was world of longing and baffled common-sense." A quote showing the two main contrasts of the story. Savageness, and civilizati...

1. Plato's Life In order to better understand Plato's philosophy on life we must first learn about his background. Plato was born in Athens, Greece in 427 B.C. He was the youngest son of Ariston and Perictione, who were both from very well respected and wealthy families. When Plato wa...

Comment on the significance of the Conch in the Lord of the Flies and Trace the continuing importance of it throughout the novel. The Lord of the Flies is a book about a large group of boys marooned on a remote tropical island. At the beginning they are all very excited at the prospect of no adu...

1984 vs. Animal Farm 1984, by George Orwell, is a very powerful drama which involves man and totalitarian society. It is a story of a lonely rebel whose only valuable is his mind and who later conspires with another in an attempt to separate from their increasingly dominant hate-infested society. In...

If you took a sensitive caring person and set them in the midst of a chaotic area, what do you think would, happen? Would these person adapt to this area, and live like everyone else, or would they become a mental mess unable to cope with what is going on around them? This was the theme of the nove...